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PROJECT NUMBER • 2007-227
DATE START/END: 30 OCT 2007 - 1 JUL 2010

Recfishing Research: National Strategy for Recreational Fisheries Research, Development and Extension

In 2005, the FRDC Board recognised the need to provide a more coordinated and targeted national approach to recreational fisheries research, development and extension (RDE). In response to this, Recfish Australia undertook a project titled “Establishing a recreational fishing working group to...
ORGANISATION:
Recfish Australia
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-727
DATE START/END: 30 JUN 2009 - 29 JUN 2012

SCRC: Seafood CRC Post Doctoral Scientist: Integrated value chain performance benchmarking studies (economics, logistics and product quality).

Seafood CRC participants have identified the need to improve competitiveness and profitability through improved supply chain management as one of their highest priorities. This is reflected in the outputs and milestones of the Seafood CRC agreement, the CRC OzSeaValue theme and plans of various CRC...
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University
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DATE:
2023-04-28

FRDC supporting its stakeholders

Seafood on Spencer On a sunny Saturday in late March, thousands of people flocked to a sold-out Seafood on Spencer festival. Held on the foreshore at Port Broughton on the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia, the festival was organised by a committee of local fishing families and other...
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PUBLISHED:
2018-03-01

Fisher calls for management innovation

An electronic pulse trawler operating overseas would not meet Australia’s fishing regulations. Photos: Wayne Dredge With an in-depth look at fisheries management regimes around the world, Wayne Dredge has come to a clear position on what is needed to encourage innovation and efficiency in...
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PUBLISHED:
2015-12-01

Not your usual catch

Fishers are often at the frontline in close encounters with the weird and wonderful creatures that make up our marine and freshwater environments Australian National Fish Collection director Daniel Gledhill with specimens awaiting formal identification and registration in the collection: just...
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PUBLISHED:
2019-12-01

Doubling up on wild fisheries

Far from being a dwindling resource, Australia’s wild fisheries have the capacity to provide double the volumes currently harvested By Catherine Norwood In recent years, Australia’s wild harvest fisheries have averaged a yield of 166,000 tonnes, a decline of almost 30 per cent on our ‘peak...
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-721
DATE START/END: 14 OCT 2011 - 30 OCT 2012

Seafood CRC: understanding and minimising “greying” of farmed barramundi fillets

Farmed Barramundi of all sizes display blue-grey discolouration of fillet flesh, particularly on the area dorsal of the spine. Intensity of the colour varies from slight to deeper levels of grey. Marketing/retail experts agree that this coloration is reducing the appeal of the raw farmed...
ORGANISATION:
Curtin University
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DATE:
2022-07-07

Welcome to Senator Murray Watt Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Congratulations and welcome to the new Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Senator Murray Watt. Minister Watt, who is also Minister for Emergency Management, had an initial meeting with Indigenous, commercial and recreational fishing and aquaculture stakeholders at a roundtable meeting...
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-024
DATE START/END: 11 JAN 2015 - 30 DEC 2017

Estimating the abundance of School Shark in Australia using close kin genetic methods

Sustainable quotas for the school shark fishery have been underpinned by a stock assessment model developed by members of SharkRAG. Targeted fishing of school shark has stopped, because the model showed that the stock was depleted to below 20% of pristine. This closure, together with alterations to...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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